International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

Communications and Networking for Smart Grid: Technology and Practice


Publishing date
01 May 2011
Status
Published
Submission deadline
01 Nov 2010

Lead Editor

1Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

2Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

3Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA

4University of Milan, Milan, Italy


Communications and Networking for Smart Grid: Technology and Practice

Description

The drive for improved power system efficiency, stability, and flexibility has served as a catalyst for smart grid research and development; so the communications networks in smart grid must facilitate the wide-scale utilization of distributed and renewable energy sources, real-time granular system health measurement, rapid outage detection, the provision of real-time pricing information to consumers, and the deployment of demand response schemes which incorporate both industrial and home users. However, many open issues in communications and networking need to be addressed by researchers.

This special issue seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of communication systems for smart grid, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Protocol interoperability (e.g., IP, ANSI C12.22, and DNP3)
  • QoS architectures
  • Cyber and physical security and privacy
  • Scalability
  • Communication for distributed and renewable generation
  • Home area networking (Zigbee, OpenHAN, etc.), wireless mesh networking, and neighborhood area networks
  • Wireless communication architectures for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
  • Real-time pricing and demand response
  • Smart grid network management
  • SCADA, wide area monitoring, protection, control, and automation messaging protocols and systems
  • Green routing and switching protocols
  • Real-time fault detection, isolation and recovery, real-time load balancing, granular system health monitoring, and self-healing
  • Time synchronization for smart grid devices
  • Transport and application layer protocols and mechanisms for smart grid information dissemination applications (e.g., SCTP)
  • Middleware for end-to-end service guarantees
  • Testbed and deployment

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 617624
  • - Editorial

Communications and Networking for Smart Grid: Technology and Practice

Chi Zhou | Hossam S. Hassanein | ... | Pierangela Samarati
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 372020
  • - Review Article

Cyber Security for Smart Grid, Cryptography, and Privacy

Swapna Iyer
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 289015
  • - Review Article

M2M Communications in the Smart Grid: Applications, Standards, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges

Siok Kheng Tan | Mahesh Sooriyabandara | Zhong Fan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 382147
  • - Research Article

BVS: A Lightweight Forward and Backward Secure Scheme for PMU Communications in Smart Grid

Wei Ren | Jun Song | ... | Yi Ren
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 926363
  • - Research Article

Building Automation Networks for Smart Grids

Peizhong Yi | Abiodun Iwayemi | Chi Zhou
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 502087
  • - Research Article

Cognitive Radio for Smart Grid: Theory, Algorithms, and Security

Raghuram Ranganathan | Robert Qiu | ... | Nan Guo
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 851951
  • - Research Article

Location Discovery Based on Fuzzy Geometry in Passive Sensor Networks

Rui Wang | Wenming Cao | Wanggen Wan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2011
  • - Article ID 947396
  • - Research Article

Expected Transmission Energy Route Metric for Wireless Mesh Senor Networks

YanLiang Jin | HuiJun Miao | ... | Chi Zhou
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